In October 2023, Officer Anand Gandhi, a man originally from India who moved to Canada and became a police officer, was on patrol in Brampton. While driving past a red Jeep, Gandhi’s automatic plate reader alerted him that the owner of that vehicle had a suspended driver’s licence and the vehicle was “impound eligible.”
He was also alerted that the man was facing drug charges in Toronto.
Justice Renu Mandhane, the former head of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, stated “On a balance of probabilities, I find that Officer Gandhi relied on information about the accused’s outstanding charges (of which he was presumed innocent) combined with stereotypes about Black men being more prone to criminality and more dangerous than other people, to justify his decision to arrest and detain the accused,” Mandhane wrote.
“While Officer Gandhi’s racial bias was likely unconscious and the product of our culture and his own worldview, that is not an excuse or even a mitigating factor in terms of the seriousness of the conduct,” she wrote. “The fact that Officer Gandhi is himself is racialized — he is a Brown man — does not insulate him from the insidious power of anti-Black racism, stereotype, and racial bias.”
A Black man’s illegal perhaps-loaded gun was excluded from trial by Justice Renu Mandhane because of imagined officer bias
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With this finding, Mandhane excluded
the loaded gun, and anything the accused said, from being used at trial which means the man was let go. These are exactly the kinds of guns that the Liberals in Ottawa say they want to take off the streets; in fact, this model was banned five years ago, put on a prohibited list, but Liberal-appointed judges come up with rulings like this.
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Meanwhile, legal, licensed gun owners who used to take guns like this to the range are prohibited from using them.
They would face serious jail time for taking them to the range. If you possess an illegal Beretta CX4 and carry it around loaded in the back of your vehicle, you can be set free without even a trial, depending on your race — and if you can get before Mandhane.
“While firearms offences are serious, admitting the firearm into evidence in the context of this case would bring the administration of justice into disrepute,” she wrote.
Outrageous ruling throws out serious gun charges and puts future prosecutions at risk over judge's imagined views of racism.
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